Albert Lindley Lee

Albert Lindley Lee (16 January 1834-13 December 1907) was a Union Army Brigadier-General during the American Civil War.

Biography
Albert Lindley Lee was born in Fulton, New York in 1834, and he moved to Kansas in 1858 and became one of the founders of the Elwood Free Press and served as a judge on the Kansas Supreme Court from 1859 to 1861. When the American Civil War broke out, Lee became colonel of the 7th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, and he fought in the Siege of Corinth in 1862 and commanded a brigade at the Second Battle of Corinth. On 29 November 1862, he was promoted to Brigadier-General, and he served as John Alexander McClernand's chief of staff during the Siege of Vicksburg in 1863; he was wounded in the head at the Big Black River Bridge. In August 1864, he was placed in command of the cavalry division of the Department of the Gulf, leading Nathaniel P. Banks' cavalry during the Red River Campaign. In the last month of the war, he raided the Confederate-held town of Clinton near Baton Rouge and defeated a weak Confederate force there. He resigned from the army on 4 May 1865, and he became editor for a New Orleans newspaper, did business in New York City, and stayed involved in the Republican Party until his death in 1907.